India’s largest basmati rice exporter, REI Agro, wants to get into organised retailing. It is a dubious move

If the next growth segment is going to be the farm sector, companies like
REI Agro should do well. Like Kushi Ram Behari Lal (KRBL now), REI Agro is primarily a basmati rice processing and marketing company. It is an integrated player in that business, its business spanning right...

Get the agent to put all his/her promises in writing and ensure that you retain a copy of everything you have signed

This column has often highlighted how financial regulation is loaded against consumers because it is invariably framed after consultation with commercial entities alone; consumer interaction is rare and cursory. Consequently, initial customers of every new financial product or...

Penguin Special: The
Life and Times of Allen Lane is a fasncinating tale of how publishing actually
used to be. Publishers like Lane were mavericks with ideas, booze and
cigarettes and a deep passion for putting out good words within inexpensive
covers.

Allen Lane was a stocky, dapper man with steely blue eyes who left school at 16
and went on to found Penguin Books. He, claims the...